Global Payroll Senior Manager

🕒 July 17

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧾 Payroll

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Black Duck

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

📋 Compliance

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Compliance

Black Duck is a leader in application security testing and software composition analysis. Now part of Synopsys Software Integrity Group, it offers a unified SaaS platform optimized for DevSecOps. Their solutions enable businesses to automate security testing across the entire software development life cycle, manage open source licenses and compliance, and secure the software supply chain. Recognized as a leader by Gartner and Forrester, Black Duck provides a range of services including static, dynamic, and interactive application security testing, as well as open source audits and risk management solutions.

📋 Description

• Manage recurring global payroll operations to ensure employees are paid accurately, timely, and in compliance with applicable company policies and local requirements. • Oversee payroll inputs, validations, approvals, funding coordination, reconciliations, close support, and post-payroll reporting. • Support payroll processing for wages, bonuses, commissions, benefits deductions, leaves, terminations, retroactive adjustments, equity-related payroll items, and other compensation changes. • Maintain payroll controls, documentation, approval evidence, reconciliations, and audit-ready support in partnership with Accounting, HR, Tax, Legal, and external providers. • Coordinate timely resolution of payroll issues, employee escalations, provider errors, audit requests, and compliance questions. • Manage day-to-day relationships with global payroll providers, EOR partners, payroll tax providers, benefits administrators, and related third-party service providers. • Maintain practical vendor routines, including open issue tracking, recurring check-ins, escalation paths, service expectations, and performance follow-up. • Partner with HR, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Procurement, and Enterprise Applications to support payroll execution, funding, reporting, compliance, and employee lifecycle events. • Recommend practical improvements to provider performance, service quality, process consistency, cost effectiveness, and issue resolution. • Help improve payroll data flows, integrations, reporting, and controls across payroll, HRIS, ERP, benefits, equity, tax, and treasury processes. • Identify and support opportunities to standardize processes, reduce manual effort, improve reporting, and strengthen payroll accuracy and governance. • Maintain useful payroll metrics and reporting, including cycle timeliness, open issues, error trends, off-cycle payments, reconciliation status, and control completion. • Support payroll-related system changes, provider transitions, integration enhancements, entity expansion, and M&A or transformation activities as needed. • Lead and develop payroll team members by setting clear expectations, operating rhythms, and accountability for accurate and timely execution. • Build team depth through cross-training, backup coverage, documentation discipline, and shared operating knowledge. • Maintain payroll calendars, standard operating procedures, process narratives, approval matrices, and recurring close or compliance checklists. • Other tasks and activities as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field. • 8+ years of progressive payroll experience, including meaningful responsibility for multi-state U.S. payroll and international payroll operations. • At least 3 years of payroll leadership experience, including oversight of payroll team members, outsourced providers, or cross-functional payroll operations. • Demonstrated experience managing payroll in a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction environment with outsourced payroll providers and/or EOR partners. • Strong working knowledge of payroll tax, wage and hour requirements, statutory deductions, benefits deductions, payroll accounting, reconciliations, and payroll compliance processes. • Experience supporting controls-focused environments, including audit support, process documentation, reconciliations, evidence retention, and practical process improvement. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain payroll issues clearly to employees, Finance leaders, HR partners, providers, and auditors. • Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation strongly preferred. • Experience in SaaS, cybersecurity, technology, software, PE-backed, or global private-company environments preferred. • Experience with ADP, ADP Celergo, Workday, NetSuite, EOR platforms, or similar payroll/HRIS/ERP environments preferred. • Experience supporting non-U.S. payroll operations through outsourced providers, in-country partners, or EOR arrangements preferred. • Experience supporting statutory audit requests, benefit audits, worker classification considerations, global provider management, or payroll-related compliance matters preferred. • Experience supporting payroll-related entity expansion, provider transitions, system changes, M&A integration, or Finance improvement initiatives preferred. • Hands-on, delivery-oriented leadership style with strong integrity, discretion, judgment, and a controls-minded approach to governance, audit readiness, and risk mitigation. • Collaborative, service-oriented, and able to influence across Finance, People, Legal, Tax, Treasury, Enterprise Applications, external providers, employees, and leadership. • Process improvement mindset with a proactive interest in automation, practical workflow improvements, and scalable payroll routines.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work hours • Paid time off • Remote work options